Telegram has rolled out its first update of the year, adding a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new message search filters, and the ability to turn gifts into NFTs.
Telegram has rolled out its first update of the year, adding a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new message search filters, and the ability to turn gifts into NFTs.
Y’know, I use telegram significantly, despite being generally privacy-minded. I won’t get into that here, it’s been discussed to death already. But Jesus Christ I wish they’d move on from the crypto/nft garbage. They were on a roll with features, as evidenced by other platforms adopting them regularly, but now it’s always this crap mixed in.
They were the best with all their advanced chatting options like reactions, emoji suggestions, custom emojis, sticker packs, sticker creation tools, advanced file sharing, extra options for forwarding messages, custom themes per chat, advanced custom theming, native clients for every platform that just work without a phone dependency… And then they started adding all these slimy features with advanced bots, stores, telegram coins, telegram webapps (games, idk).
It’s like instead of becoming the best messaging app ever they want to become a shitty “everything” app that’s just bloated as hell.
I think they are trying to find ways to monetize the ecosystem without having to sell user data or more ads. Their generous inital fund won’t last forever. I use telegram daily but I never have to interact with any of the paid features. Telegram is also not pushy about them. But if you want them, they are there.
I guess, I just dislike that sometimes I fat-finger into popups about gifting premium, especially when I’m a premium user, was. It’s great value for the price and I wanted to support them, but all this focus and those popups really drove me out of the features I enjoyed just for the principle.
The only reason I still use it is the same reason I have WhatsApp installed. To interact with people that refuse to swap.